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This one:
Western Digital WDH1U5000

http://www.westerndigital.com/en/p [...] riveid=351

or this:
Western Digital WDG1U5000E

http://techstore.co.uk/detail.php? [...] lPage=over

I can buy both products in the same price.

thx :D


Message edited by kovar on 06-22-2008 at 10:42:17 PM
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Neither
They both have built in DRM.
Buy the parts and make one your self.

Reply to bobbknight

Built in DRM in a HD? How does that work?

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bobbknight wrote :

Neither
They both have built in DRM.




Please elaborate.

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http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007 [...] gital.html
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/periphe [...] 331320.php
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sh [...] p?t=197158
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/ [...] ia_files/1
It seems as if it's only in the 1tb models but I wouldn't buy from them just on principal.


Message edited by ausch30 on 06-22-2008 at 03:20:58 PM
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To the best of my knowledge, the ethernet version contains software which prevents the sharing media files over a (wide area) network, but the USB version doesn't.

Reply to MrLinux

Wow; this is freakishly sick. Never again am I going to buy a WD product. This kind of corporate behaviour must be punished at all costs!

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aziraphale wrote :

Wow; this is freakishly sick. Never again am I going to buy a WD product. This kind of corporate behaviour must be punished at all costs!



I agree and wish more felt like that but the whole Root Kit thing didn't hurt Sony so unfortunately they feel they can do what they want.

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I'm shocked and saddened. Shame of you WD. :(

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rodney_ws wrote :

A witch? BURN HER.



That's not very nice. Where do you live, Salem?

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Reply to ausch30

I read Gizmodo's article on the WD DRM and according to that it's not DRM built into the hardware... just some overly restrictive software that comes with the drive.

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rodney_ws wrote :

I read Gizmodo's article on the WD DRM and according to that it's not DRM built into the hardware... just some overly restrictive software that comes with the drive.



I read it too but the problem is that the average user is going to install the software because it came with it and their going to run into issues. It's not up to a hardware company to police their customers and limit their use of their content. Just make the damn drive!

On a local network it works fine but their selling it as a cheap NAS and say your on vacation with your laptop and want to access and video or music file on the drive the software won't let you.

Here is a list of what it won't let you access
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wd [...] _topview=1
Pretty much covers everything

Their excuse is because they don't have a way of verifying your ownership of the material then they won't let you access it.


Message edited by ausch30 on 06-22-2008 at 04:18:26 PM
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MrsBytch wrote :

What do Witches have to do with HDD's??



Well, its where they store their spells.

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Reply to halcyon

This is why I use Gparted on all externals before I use them.

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runswindows95 wrote :

This is why I use Gparted on all externals before I use them.


Partition Magic would work to but that wouldn't solve the issue of the networking software not allowing you to share your files.

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Reply to ausch30

What networking software? I wipe the entire drive before I even boot into Windows with Gparted.

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I would actually suggest just making a cheap media server with Windows server (easy way) or even cheaper Linux (more complicated). Then you can do what you want and share what you want with who you want and you don't have some hardware company saying this may or may not be legally yours so we just won't let you use it.

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runswindows95 wrote :

What networking software? I wipe the entire drive before I even boot into Windows with Gparted.



I'm talking about the disc that comes with it to enable the networking ability of the device. Think average user not average Tom's user.

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ausch30 wrote :

I would actually suggest just making a cheap media server with Windows server (easy way) or even cheaper Linux (more complicated). Then you can do what you want and share what you want with who you want and you don't have some hardware company saying this may or may not be legally yours so we just won't let you use it.



+1

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Now I am more comfused :S

I dont know what to buy.
sombody HELP!!!


Message edited by kovar on 06-22-2008 at 10:49:23 PM
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Do you need Network Attached Storage (NAS) or are you just looking for an external hard drive?

If you just want an external hard drive I would suggest buying an enclosure and a hard drive and putting the two together.


Message edited by ausch30 on 06-22-2008 at 10:48:41 PM
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I'm just looking for an external hard drive

Reply to kovar
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What kind of connection are you looking for?
E-sata
Firewire
USB
or any combination of the three.

How much storage do you want or need?


Message edited by ausch30 on 06-23-2008 at 03:11:02 AM
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Reply to ausch30

Anyone knows if the WDH1U5000 is IDE or SATA?

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rafa_rob wrote :

Anyone knows if the WDH1U5000 is IDE or SATA?



http://shopper.cnet.com/hard-drive [...] 40325.html

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rafa_rob wrote :

Anyone knows if the WDH1U5000 is IDE or SATA?


You should start a new thread rather than digging up an old one. The drive your asking about connects to your system through USB, as for the actual drive inside I don't know but I would think it's sata.

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